Rohas Nagpal Asian School of Cyber Laws - Department of ...
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<strong>Asian</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cyber</strong> <strong>Laws</strong><br />
1.5 Intellectual Property Crimes<br />
These include s<strong>of</strong>tware piracy, copyright infringement, trademarks<br />
violations, theft <strong>of</strong> computer source code etc.<br />
Illustration 1<br />
A s<strong>of</strong>tware pr<strong>of</strong>essional from<br />
Bangalore (India) was booked for<br />
stealing the source code <strong>of</strong> a<br />
product being developed by his<br />
employers. He started his own<br />
company and allegedly used the<br />
stolen source code to launch a new<br />
s<strong>of</strong>tware product.<br />
Illustration 2<br />
In 2003, a computer user in China<br />
obtained the source code <strong>of</strong> a<br />
popular game - LineageII from an<br />
unprotected website. This<br />
proprietary code was then sold to<br />
several people in 2004. One <strong>of</strong><br />
those people set up a website,<br />
www.l2extreme.com, to <strong>of</strong>fer the<br />
“Lineage” game at a discount.<br />
Despite legal warnings from the<br />
South Korean company that owned<br />
the Lineage source code, the<br />
suspect did not shut down the site.<br />
He rented powerful servers -<br />
enough to accommodate 4,000<br />
simultaneous gamers - and solicited<br />
donations from users to help defray<br />
the costs.<br />
The loss in potential revenues for<br />
the South Korean company was<br />
estimated at $750,000 a month. The<br />
US FBI arrested the suspect and<br />
the website was shut down.<br />
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